Road tolls back on Scottish Executive agenda


Road tolls are alive and well and still threatening to come to a road or street near you! The Scottish Executive have just published the regulations for exemptions from any future road tolls.

So hands up those who thought that road tolls were dead, apart from London and Edinburgh?

Last week the Scottish Executive published its proposals on the national minimum exemptions for road tolls. The draft exemption regulations are published under Section 54 of the Transport (Scotland) Act 2001 and would apply to any tolls scheme made under that Act.

So the tolling issue is very much alive. How many years before you have to stump up £1 or £2 every time you want to take your car or delivery van into or move around the toll area (which was at one time proposed to be anything inside an area bounded by Anderson Drive and the two rivers).

And what would that do to the quality of life in the city and to the viability of businesses in the city centre?

Just watch this space! Under the 'cuddlier' guise of "road user charging" road tolls could still be coming to Aberdeen and many other roads throughout Scotland.

Posted: Mon - November 24, 2003 at 03:10 PM          

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